Our own Newscoma has a story about a woman who lives in Arkansas and is expecting her 18th child. Michelle Dugger, 41, is due on New Year’s Day. The children range in age from 20 to 6 months. I have no understanding of what her life is like. That’s got to be like $30 a week in milk alone…
Full story. And, the family has a web site.
Edit: They also have a TV show on the Discovery Health Channel, it seems. You can even play “Name that Duggar!”
Somewhere out there, there’s a very jealous polygamist…
I believe they are part of the “Full Quiver” movement: birthing more and more babies for God’s Kingdom or some such. JimBob Duggar apparently had his home declared a church so this fecundity is tax free. That will help, since he lists “real estate agent” as his employment, and with the market crumbling nationwide, he might need some help to feed all those hungry mouths.
She’s been pregnant for 11 years of her life. She’s 41. Wow.
Aggh, Newscoma, that’s a lot of pregnant-time.
So all their children have names that start with “j,” just like their father Jim Bob. I think if I were Michelle D., I’d be getting a little tired of having to come up with more “j” names to honor my husband. What’s wrong with names starting with “m”? Malachi, Merlin, Madduhsynn, Moon Unit–all great. Or, like, Matthew and Megan, even, if they were wanting to go in a, you know, weirder direction.
I would just secretly resent it a little if I were birthing all these babies and having to come up with creative “j” names like “Jinger,” is all. Then again, I’m not her, so rock on, Duggars.
So I wonder who gets the mother’s day card. The lady who birthed the kids or the older children who raise the younger ones in between their SCHEDULED appointment with Mom.
Seriously, a sign-up list for “one-on-one time” with a parent?!?!?! Only in America could people intentionally put themselves in a position where it is physically impossible for them to be good parents and be rewarded for it with their own TV show.